The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency is organized by Well-Assembled Meetings and will be held during Apr 20 - 22, 2018 at Hyatt Regency Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
The target audience for this medical event is Physicians, Critical Care Specialists, Intensivists, Hospitalists, Family Physicians, Physician Assistants, Paramedics, Flight Nurses and Respiratory Therapists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 22.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Conference Description :
Airway Management is one of the most critical skills in Emergency Medicine. This course is designed to provide participants with state-of-the-art information and hands-on experience that ensure effective and appropriate management of airway emergencies.
Taught by a world-class faculty, this course is the only national CME program that teaches the evidence-based, algorithmic approach to emergency airway management developed by airway experts Ron M. Walls, Michael F. Murphy and Robert C. Luten. The course emphasizes assessment and decision-making to enable participants to manage any emergency airway they encounter. This 'practice-changing' program offers multiple hands-on sessions that reinforce the learning and provide valuable practice time with proven airway devices.
Hands-on Training in Crucial Airway Techniques :
• Percutaneous and surgical cricothyrotomy
• Video laryngoscopy
• Fiberoptic stylets and guides
• Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
• Extraglottic devices
• Awake intubation
• Flexible endoscopic intubation
• Pediatric airway skills
• Techniques for the obese patient
• and more!
Conference Objectives are :
• Have a clear conceptual framework for Difficult Airway Management in the emergency setting.
• Be able to identify the Difficult, Unanticipated/Emergency Difficult and Failed airway.
• Have a rapid and systematic approach for the management of each of these clinical dilemmas.
• Be familiar with the devices and techniques needed to manage these clinical dilemmas, and when and how to use them.
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.